THOUGHTS INSPIRED BY YOUR TRAPDOOR!

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New Prompt: Write a story or poem with the following items: a trapdoor, a convention, and a broken cell phone.

THOUGHTS INSPIRED BY YOUR TRAPDOOR

I know this was your chil'dhood room
--it's now part of your very soul!
And when I try to clean it up,
I really want to throw
your artifacts away, but I am
halted, staring at your trapdoor!
You made it, to escape nightly,
'cause you were so deadly bored!
You fled to purchase your new books;
most kids' "trips" were diff'erent;
the only ones that you took, rightly,
were the ones that used your mind!!
And, now I've just happened upon
an old item that was mine;
even now that we are all "grown,"
you frugally insist upon
using my broken, cell phone!!
I killed it way back in Memphis;
tried to flush it down the pot;
you then ordered new parts for it,
no matter how hard I fought
to buy a NEW phone from THIS decade,
it really was common sense!
to have newly-made equipment
--we'd not look SO very dense
when we pulled out our tacky old phones
for our convention's vigilance!